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I wrote an application that by design, when minimized, goes to the tray, and will only show up as a normal form when you doubleclick the icon in the tray. To do this, I added a NotifyIcon, and added these functions: Private Sub Form1_Resize(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs)...

Take this XML: <Root> <SourceData> <Name> <Abbreviation>IRS</Abbreviation> </Name> <Type> <Code>T26</Code> </Type> </SourceData> <Employee> <FirstName> <FirstNames> <Name>Bill</Name> </FirstNames> </FirstName> <LastName>...

This isn't really a VB question, more of an XML question. Suppose this XML document: <Root> <Gender>Male</Gender> <Name>Bill Gates</Name> <BirthName>William Gates</BirthName> </Root> And this one: <Root> <Gender>Female</Gender> <Name>Melinda Gates</Name> <BirthName>Melinda Ann...

Given this code: Public Class Foo Property thing1 As String Property thing2 As String Property thing3 As String Property thing4 As String Property thing5 As String End Class Sub Main() Dim s as String = "" Dim l As List(Of...

Take this XML element: <root> <Alice> <HiredDate>1/1/2016</HiredDate> </Alice> </root> And this code - myXe is type "XElement": dim address as string = "/root/Alice/HiredDate" dim value as string = "2/1/2016" myXe.XPathSelectElement(address).Value = value The first two lines simulate...

Take this sample code: Dim sXml As String = "<n1 xmlns=" & ControlChars.Quote & "n2" & ControlChars.Quote & "><n3>n4</n3></n1>" Dim address As String = "n1/n3" Dim xDoc As New XmlDocument xDoc.LoadXml(sXml) Dim xNsmgr As New...

Take this code: Dim s As String = Foo(AddressOf MsgBox) Console.WriteLine(s) I would like this to print information about the method. This would be good output: Member of Microsoft.VisualBasic.Interaction This would be even better output: Assembly Microsoft.VisualBasic...

I have a table, like this: Thing Category Apple Food Bill Gates People Bread Food Chai Tea Edibles Dreamcast Electronics Edibles Everything Electronics Everything FireTV Stick Electronics Food Edibles People Everything Rocks Everything I want to...

My app has a memory leak. As a first step, I've inserted this line into the main loop: Dim c As Process = Process.GetCurrentProcess() Dim s As String = "Mem: " & c.WorkingSet64 / 1024 & " K " & _ "VM: " & c.PagedMemorySize64 / 1024 & " K " & _ "GC: " &...

I am trying to do what this article suggests: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa965884%28v=vs.85%29.aspx Here is my code: Imports Microsoft.Win32 Module Module1 Sub Main() Dim regKey As RegistryKey regKey =...

I've migrated from VS2010 to VS2013, and am running into a rather annoying issue. I have a project with 'Register for COM Interop' checked off. Half the time when I rebuild or clean, I get this: C:\Program Files\MSBuild\12.0\bin\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(4319,5): warning MSB3061...

This is on the long side because more detail will be more useful than less. There is a VB6 app which I do not have the source code for. Let's call it "MXE." One of the files included is called called "mxinterface.dll." It defines an interface called "MXPlugin." This interface allows the...

Suppose a database with two tables, "Main" and "Users." Main: ID User1ID User2ID 1 1 2 Users: UserID Name 1 Alice 2 Bob I've got a SQL statement that looks something like this: select User1.Name, User2.Name from main inner join Users as User1 on main.User1ID =...

I have a simple forms app with two buttons. Button "Runas" spawns a child process with admin privileges. Button "Close" closes the form. Here is the entire code: Public Class Form1 Private Sub B_Runas_Click(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles B_Runas.Click Dim...

Is there any way to retrieve another app's "save as" dialog's previous location? There is a third party program, which uses Windows Common Dialog libraries to save and open files. I want to write something that will read files saved by this program, and to do this I will need to retrieve the...

I'm not an expert on how stream's work in .NET. I have a file that is basically a 7z archive, except the first 667 bytes are in XML. 7zip.exe itself can extract this file just fine. I am trying to read it using a freeware library called "SharpCompress." It chokes when reading this file. I...

I have code that looks like this: For Each curFile As FileInfo In fileInfoList My.Computer.FileSystem.CopyFile(curFile.FullName, destination, UIOption.AllDialogs, UICancelOption.ThrowException) Next This works, but it results in showing a series of Windows copy dialogs, each one...

I have a COM dll, which has a class that we'll call "MagicComObject." I have access to its source code, which is VB6, but it is too complicated for me to completely understand. My VB.NET project has a section that looks like this: Dim iCounter As Integer = GetCounterFromRegistry()...

I have a VB.NET class that looks like this: Public Interface IBottles Inherits IEnumerable End Interface Public Class Bottles Implements IBottles Public Function GetEnumerator() As System.Collections.IEnumerator Implements System.Collections.IEnumerable.GetEnumerator Dim...

I'm trying to teach myself how to do stuff in ASP.NET, and I find I learn things best by looking at projects other people have already done, taking them apart, and seeing if I can re-create it. Specifically, what I'm looking for right now is a web form that connects to a locally-run SQL Server...